Two more TSA screeners at DFW Airport test positive for COVID-19

Five officers have tested positive for coronavirus since the pandemic began.

A single passenger makes her way through a TSA security checkpoint at DFW International Airport on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. An agent at this checkpoint, C21, tested positive for COVID-19 after last working April 8 from 12:30 to 9 p.m.. (Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)

Two screening agents at DFW International Airport tested positive for COVID-19, including one who worked last week. It brings the total of confirmed cases there among TSA workers to five.

One of the agents worked the C21 terminal screening with their last shift on April 8 from 12:30 to 9 p.m.

The other worked on March 31 at the A21 checkpoint from 4:15 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.

The Transportation Security Administration has already shut down eight of its 13 checkpoints at DFW because of the huge drop in airline traffic, leaving just one in each of the five terminals open. Only 90,510 passengers went through TSA checkpoints at airports nationwide on Sunday, the lowest number since the 1950s.

The TSA did not provide any additional information about the positive tests among screening agents.

According to TSA’s website for tracking the coronavirus among employees, 42 officers have tested positive in the last two weeks as well as four TSA employees who do not work with the public. Some 26 officers have recovered from COVID-19, and two have died since the pandemic began.

Kyle Arnold. Kyle Arnold is the aviation writer for The Dallas Morning News, covering airlines, air travel and the aerospace industry. He previously worked as a business journalist for the Orlando Sentinel, Tulsa World and The Monitor in McAllen. He is a University of Washington graduate.